On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 12:36, Ron Georgia <[email protected]> wrote: > > " Why not just run NetBSD-current if that works with your card?" > A most excellent question, with a relatively embarrassing answer: I am not > sure how to keep NetBSD-current, current. I am part of the NetBSD-current > mailing list and read about different issues others are experiencing; > however, I do not really know how to update the base OS or apply a particular > (suggested) patch. I did read the " Tracking NetBSD-current" page, but it > seems confusing to me. > > Thank you for responding. I'll try current again.
You might want to try just running a current kernel first - I'm running stock netbsd-8 userland and packages and just a current kernel on my T530... I setup boot.cfg to default to a new option (boot '/current') then have this quickly hacked up script I run every so often to update the current kernel #!/bin/sh -e TMPDIR=$HOME/.cache/tmp mkdir -p $TMPDIR TMPFILE=$TMPDIR/current.$$ ftp -o $TMPFILE http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz if ! gzip -t $TMPFILE ; then echo "**** Downloaded file fails gzip test" rm -f $TMPFILE exit 1 fi if cmp -s $TMPFILE /current ; then echo "Unchanged" rm -f $TMPFILE else sudo chown root:wheel $TMPFILE sudo mv /current /ocurrent sudo mv $TMPFILE /current fi stat -f "%9Z %Sm %N%SY" /ocurrent /current David
